[hobbit] Re: MEMPHYS went nuts

[Xymon User in Richmond]

On Sun, December 20, 2009 13:43, Jaime Kikpole wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Ralph Mitchell
> <ralphmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That "Total:4084" is supposed to be the total physical memory in the
>> system, if I'm reading the freebsd-meminfo.c source correctly.  If you
>> have the xymon source, that's under the "client" directory.
>
> Thanks.  I'm going to check on that now.
>
>
>> If that system is supposed to have 8G of memory, I think the kernel may
>>  not be seeing half of it...
>
> That makes some sense.  It doesn't explain why it thinks that its using
> about 4 billion percent of capacity, though.  That would be 40,000,000
> times capacity.  Is there someplace that the unit of measurement is set?
>
Can't get my head around the math on a Sunday afternoon, but if it's
trying to do calculations using what it can see is used and what it's been
told is the total available, which may be less, the results would be some
kind of hosed.